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THE

Actuelle

RECORD

FOR ALL NEEDLE

MACHINES $1.50 each

Talbe-Orient

12, Queen's Road, Central,

When Robert D. Robinson, min- Ing engineer of Brinsley, Notting ham,was fined £3 178. 6d. for driving his car to the public dan- ger at Mavis Enderby, Lincoln- shire, it was stated that the car dashed into "a" prùm which was, smashed to pieces. The baby rol- led out uninjured.

The Californian giant redwood trees which attain a height of from 200ft. to 800ft.in the Sequoia National Forest, woro threatened by a forest fire which bedan near the township of Bad ger. The fire had already swept 60,000 acres of brushland, when it was stopped,

HOTELS..

·: THE

HONGKONG

HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL: PEAK HOTEL; Telographie Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG."

AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL; KALEE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL.

'CENTRAL, SHANGHAL”

Telegraphic Address:

HOTELS.

LIMITED.

In 'association with the Grand Hotel Des Wagons Lits, Poking.

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

CENTRAL LOCATION

ELECTRIC LIFTS AND LIGHTING, TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR.

HOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS

Tolophons Central 373

Telegraphic Address

**Victonia

KOWLOON HOTEL.

THE PREMIER HOTEL IN KOWLOON."

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This First Class Residential and Tourist Hotel provides the acme

of comfort and service for its Guests.

Six Stories of up to date slogantly furnished airy rooms with latest

sanitary appliances..

Excellent cuisine under supervision of experienced Chef.

First Class Billard Room and Saloon Bar. Electric Lift and Telephones to each floor. Rates for Families greatly reduced.

RATES:-Single-Monthly from $120, Weekly from $80 and Dally

from $5.

Double-Monthly from $230, Weekly from $55 and Dally

from $9.

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Under new and progressive management.

Tels: K608 and K.500.

Telegraphic Address:- “KOWLOTEL” Hongkong.

THE EUROPE HOTEL.

SINGAPORE.

Terms: A la carte or Inclusive.

Telephone in every room. After-dinner dancing every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

GRILL ROOM.

Tolograms. "Europe Singapore"

Telephone 2740.

Tel Address:

"Glonenly" Hongkong

ARTHUR E. ODELL, Managing Director.

GLENEALY HOTEL

8 & 4, Glenenly

Telephone, C. 980,

(Near Dairy Farm).

Hot

A Brat class Rosidential and Tourist Hotel. Splendidly situated with- in easy walking distance of all business centres, Large airy rooms. and Cold water. Excellent Cuisine under the porsonal supervision of the Propristress. Monthly and family rates at moderate forms,

For further particulars apply to:

MRS. FREDERICKS,'

Proprietress.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

MONDAY

HONGKONG'S NARROW ESCAPE.

(Continued from Paga 1):

TYPHOON'S TRACK, OBSERVATORY'S OFFICIAL

REPORT.

brought down the overhand tram way wired, offectively blocking

vehicular tralle at this point.

PRAYA SCENES.

SEPTEMBER 27, 1926.-

There were six Indian and Chin- ose policemen inside the building at the time, but fortunately all of-| caped without Injury, The building is a bungalow-type structure, built seven years ago, and had the usual sloping roof typical of most Chinese buildings..

IN KOWLOON. A journey along the Praya to

There is very little serious dam On enquiry at the Royal Ob- West Point revealed an exceptionage to report from Kowloon. servatory later this morning, aally high tide, at one place the seaMost of the scaffolding in front of Telegraph, representative was in-being level with the roadway the Peninsula Hotel was blown formed that until shortly before Several steamers were observed down and two boilers, which were eight o'clock last night the typhoon with propellors revolving in order lying on Holta' Wharf, were blown was heading for Amoy, but it then to assist them in keeping up to into the sen. took a sudden turn to the westward their respective buoya. Most The matshed at the Children's and passed close to the Pratns. At shops and warehouses were closed, Playground, Chatham Road, was 8.30 this morning it passed within many being barricaded, and in completely wrecked, and Nathan a few miles south of Gap Rock and, some of the side streets, stalls Road was strewn with branches. presuming it continues its course, were reduced to jumbled-up Heaps. A few trees are reported to be it will strike the coast a little In some instances, merchandise down.

|had been blown into the sea from were injured. south and west of Macho.

There is a report that two

The severity of the typhoon can the wharves, but several junks and be judged from the fact that the lighters which had been unable to houses collapsed at Shamsulpo highest velocity registered in any make shelter, had been securely this morning, but this still re- one squall at the Observatory was moored in between wharves, and quiries confirmation. 100 miles per hour, which occurred appeared woworse, for the severe at 8.15 this morning. The ap proximate mean velocity between eight and nine o'clock was 60 miles per hour.

bufetting experienced"

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HERE AND THERE

TRAME SERVICE STOPPED...... In the absence of reports coming Coincident with other trans-through this morning, of possible At 2.20 this morning, a notifica-portation services, the lower landslides or subsidences on the tion was issued from the Observa-level tramway service was sus-island, "all clear" was the report tory to the effect that a severe pended this morning, and, for the of the Traffic Office when a Tele- typhoon had passed about 10 miles third time this season, the streets graph representative called at south of the Pratas and the pro-presented a deserted appearance, bability then was that it would except for a few hardy ricksha pass 60 miles south of Gap Rock coolies who were not averse to Owing to a change in its courac, making trips for passengers even under the hazardous conditions

it came much nearer.

No. 1 Signal was hoisted at 9.10 p.m.; No. 4 was holsted at 2.40 a.m.; No. 6 at 4.43 8.m.; No. 7 signal at 6.37 a.m. A few minutes after the last signal was hoisted, the warring guns were fired.

The wind gradually died down during the course of the 'morning, and the Observatory expects that by this evening, ohly strong breezes will prevail.

The rainfall for the 24 hours ended at 10.30 this morning was 1.67 inches.

ON THE ISLAND."

NOT MUCH DAMAGE.

STEAMERS RELEASED,

Anti-Foreign Feeling in Szechuan.

Hankow, Sept. 27. General Yang Sen. has re- Teased the captured steamers.

That the anti-foreign feel ing in Szechuan has reached. its height. is demonstrated by the evacuation of 76, foreign- ers, mainly women and chil- dran, from. Chungking. the students and labourers, as- sisted by the militia, were threatening their lives, the atthorities advised them to leave immediately.

Forty-two have arrived at Hankow, whilst the remainder stopped at Ichang. It is learned from Chungking that the evacuated residences have been looted.-Reuto

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Several Peak residents who were unaware that the last signal had been holsted, set out earlier than usual for the Peak tram station in the hope of catching a tram be- ford the suspension of the service. In most cases, an exciting walk was experienced before the station. was reached, when it was discover ed that no trams were running. Later on, news' came up. that the track was blocked in at least one place, and that falling trees had that obtained along, the more ex- carried away the signalling wires, posed stretches of the lower Some of the more venturesome levels. They raised their fores spirits therefore proceeded to walk in proportion, of course, to their down, although all did not reach conception of the risk of the their destination and two at least journey.

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sustained cuts and bruises before Owing to the comparatively they had gone very far, necessitat-smali rainfall there was this ing their return..

'morning a welcome absence of the

On the Magazine Gap Road, the usual deposit of silt across the many trees have been blown down, tracks, except in the Happy Valley and two telephone standards are district, where the lines were again down. Elsewhere, lemp-posts have

blocked at Wongneichong, been blown over, and the paths are generally strewn with branches of trees and other debris.. The bam-. boo scaffolding at the block of flats

POLICE STATION DAMAGE. "The first report to hand of next to the Peak Hotel has been damage done to buildings comes The partly carried away, while some from the Eastern district. houses have had windows blown police sub-station in Wongnel-

In.

noon.

Near the Yaumati Ferry Wharf, on the Central Praya, a heavy gangway plank was lifted by the Waves and deposited some distance from the edge of the seawall. The waterfront at this spot is lit tared with jetsam and refuse thrown up by the waves."

The fishing fleets at Shaukiwan Are safely in shelter and no occur- rence of an untoward nature is re- parted from the local police station, "

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The staircase leading to the first floor of No. 50, the Central Praya, was blown in and wrecked by the wind at 7 o'clock this morning. None of the inmates

The Czechoslovak Government has granted an annual subsidy of 15,000 gold francs (£600) to the International stitute of Intellec tual Co-operation.

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Miss D. Jordan Lloyd of Lon- don, accompanied by the guides, Hans and Fritz Kaufmann of Grindelwald, made the first ascent this season of the Schreckhorn.

"Your sweetheart is very sym- No serious damage has yet-chong Gap had its roof blown been reported, however.

completely off by a gust of wind at pathetic. He told me things I had 'from anybody." At a spot about a hundred yards 7.40 this morning, the wreckage novar heard

"Indeed! Did he ask you tb from the Ray View Station, in being carried to a distance of Whitfield Road, a big tree was about a hundred feet from the marry him, then?"— blown down and in its fall it site.

HIS MAJESTY SAILS THE "BRITANNIA."

Buen Humor, Madrid.

Entertainments.

QUEEN'S

TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

at 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15 p.m.

WESLEY BARRY

Supported by

PAT O'MALLEY, GEORGE FAWCETT, MARY CARR, MILDRED HARRIS

in

THE FIGHTING CUB

a Fast-moving Comedy Drama of Newspaper Life

THE FIFTH TEST MATCH

STAR

TO-DAY FROM 5.30 TO 11.15 FM,

THE

UNINVITED GUEST

Owing to the Typhoon the Globe Trotters will not commence their season until To-Morrow.

WORLD

TO-DAY and TO-MORROW

at 5.15 and 9.15 p.m. only

The Great American Dramatic Success that has played to crowded, houses everywhere.

LIGHTNIN

NOW A FINE PHOTOPLAY!

Wonderful Character Studies.

Almost Continuous Comedy.

A Picture you Cannot Afford to Miss.

THEATRE

ROYAL

To-night, Monday 27th September

9,30 p.m.

FAREWELL PERFORMANCE

THE

STAVRINAKY DANCERS

(at the Piano: Prof Harry Ore.) in a

COMPLETELY NEW PROGRAMME

We had a sold out house on Saturday-take this last opportunity to see THE SHOW WHICH CAPTURED SHANGHAI BOOK YOUR SEATS EARLY at Anderson's, Montrie's and the Theatre Royal

Prices: $3, $2, & $1.

RELINQUISHING OUR BUSINESS

FOR

FOUR DAYS ONLY

From Sept. 27th to Sept. 30th

we offer a general

20 per%

DISCOUNT

on all goods in stook

MAGASIN

GENERAL

Printed and Published for the Proprietor by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.

His Majesty King George is here seen at the wheel of his famour yacht, tho Britannia.

Canadian gold production in] 1925 established a new high "record," with a total of 1,785,795 fine oz. valued at $35,880,826, as compared with $31,532,443 in, the preceeding year.

Henry Charles Eggleton was bound over at Reading on a charge of embezzling money belonging to the British Legion, of which he was the Berkshire secretary. His son went auréty for him.

While working on a scaffolding at Hawarden Old Rectory, which is being converted into a Church of England Theological College, Richard Davis, of Saltnoy, fell to the ground and was killed.ARINE

"Tell me what ails me Docto

pläin.

Latin!"

Prince Marie Jose, daughter of "You suffer from sheer laz

the King and Queen of the Bel-

glans, was recently in England for noge

a holiday at the Ursuline Convent,Now tell me what it is in Latih Brentford.She was a student at

the Convent School at Brentwood so that I can tell my wife!" during the war, spareNA

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